I haven't done any listening for a few years but I still have a cupboard mounted Sony ICF 2001 which I hope still works, I might fish it out this week. The 2001 covers FM, LW, AM broadcast band and then SW continuously up to 30Mhz with SSB capability. They were a nice little radio, although somewhat flaky, mine used to flatten the backup batteries in cold weather, no real reason, in summer no problem but as winter arrived the backup batteries would go flat overnight. I remember listening to Antarctic HF radio telephone conversations to Australia, somewhere between 4 and 5 Mhz and one guy commenting to his mates that he turned his underwear inside out every other week...
I too tried weather satellite decoding, I used an old modded scanner t achieve the necessary bandwidth.
It was fun waiting for the satellite to doodle over and watching the image write on to the PC screen.